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LABOUR is right that Sajid Javid’s pilot plan for recruiting migrant fruit and vegetable pickers will not be enough to plug anticipated labour shortages on British farms.
However, shadow food, environment and rural affairs secretary Sue Hayman’s pledge to reinstate the agricultural workers’ scheme merely addresses one symptom of a much deeper-rooted problem.
To be fair to Hayman, she fleshes out that vision — the decision to bring back the Agricultural Wages Board, announced by Jeremy Corbyn at this year’s Tolpuddle festival, will do far more for the sustainability of British agriculture by pushing up wages.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’